Is It Ironic?

Don't you hate when someone uses the @ symbol for whatever they damn well please. It isn't up to you to decide what the @ symbol stands for, it stands for "at". You can't just go back to the Rosetta Stone and decide that you have a whole different version of what Ptolemy was telling the Egyptians. The @ is a modern hieroglyphic leave it alone. You don't want some alien race coming along years after we are gone and saying, "I don't know what these humans were trying to say, there is no consistency to this @ symbol." So for all of you who use the @ for "and" or "about" just stop it. Your actions have consequences. I don't tell people to e-mail me at david"about"verizon.net. Of course the greater question is why do we have such a need to abbreviate a two letter word? Was the T too much for you? Arthritis setting in now? Sorry to bother you all with the T, instead just loop around your A, and from here on out, we'll all know what you meant. Imagine once you use @, how overwhelming the word "the" must seem. The next time you tell someone to meet you @ Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Massachussetts, I bet you will feel rather childish abbreviating the dreaded "at." (look it up by the way, it's real)

So where is the irony in all of this? Well as much as the @ aggravates me, I find it ironic that people constantly misuse the concept of irony. Are you listening Miss Morissette, because I am pretty sure that irony is the same in the USA as it is in Canada, eh. Rain on your wedding day is infuriating, NOT ironic. A free ride when you already paid is wierd, NOT ironic. The good advice that you just didn't take would be fantastic if you knew Bernie Madoff, but NOT ironic. A more appropriate title for the song would be "Isn't It Annoying." Don't you think......yeah, I really do think!! Of course, I am not going to tell Alanis. Have you read the lyrics to "You Oughta Know?" Okay, Alanis you win. Is it ironic that she is kind of cute, yet has more teeth than a T-Rex?

YOU WANT SOME REAL IRONY.......

The Wright Brothers first flight was shorter than the wingspan of a 747.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.





Now sing it with me because having it stuck in your head is, you guessed it IRONIC...

It's like ra-e-ain on your wedding day.
It's a free riiiiiide when you already paid.
It's the good advii-iiice that you just didn't take.
And who would have thought.....it figures.